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B03688 An account of Mr. Edward Sclater's return to the communion of the Church of England and of the recantation he made at the Church of St. Mary Savoy, the fifth of May, 1689. Dr. Burnet, Bishop of Sarum, preaching the sermon there that forenoon. / By Anthony Horneck D.D. Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697. 1689 (1689) Wing H2816; ESTC R178249 11,650 15

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